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Meaning Of Polyester Microfibers: Explained in bri

Meaning Of Polyester Microfibers: Explained in bri

by : Rahul Sharma

POLYESTER MICROFIBERS:

A synthetic fiber that is extremely soft, lightweight, breathable, durable and ultrafine. In fact, microfibers are two times finer than silk and one hundred times finer than a human hair. Microfiber is currently manufactured from acrylic, nylon, polyester and rayon. Ultra-microfibers on the market are even finer– some having thickness of just 1/200th the thickness of human hair!

Microfibres refer to staple fibres, or individual filaments within yarns, which have fineness less than 1 decitex ( 1 grams per 10,000 meters) and For any fiber to be classified as microfibre yarn, the weight per 10,000 metres of yarn (dtex) is divided by the number of filaments (f), the result must be below 1.